Torture - Human Rights Watch
Jul 31, 2025 · The prohibition against torture is a bedrock principle of international law. Torture, as well as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, is banned at all times, in all places, including in …
Prominent Critic of Guinean Junta Abducted, Tortured
Jun 24, 2025 · In Guinea early on Saturday morning, at least a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the home of Mohamed Traoré, a prominent lawyer and former bar association …
Russia’s Systematic Torture of Ukrainian POWs - Human Rights …
(Kyiv, December 11, 2025) – Russian authorities and military forces have systematically tortured and ill-treated Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) at the time of their capture and throughout ...
“You Have Arrived in Hell”: Torture and Other Abuses Against ...
Nov 12, 2025 · The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the …
Sudan: Fighters Rape Women and Girls, Hold Sex Slaves
Dec 16, 2024 · Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state …
Russian Torture - Human Rights Watch
May 6, 2025 · The death of Viktoriia Roshchyna, the 27-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist, is as straightforward as it is horrific. Russia disappeared her. Russia tortured her. Russia then …
US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees
Nov 12, 2025 · Read our recent report on how Venezuelan nationals sent to El Salvador by the US government in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses inside El …
The Legal Prohibition Against Torture | Human Rights Watch
Mar 11, 2003 · Given that people being tortured will say anything to stop the pain, the information yielded from torture is often false or of dubious reliability.
“They Threw Me in the Water and Beat Me” - Human Rights Watch
Oct 15, 2024 · The 22-page report, “‘They Threw Me in the Water and Beat Me’: The Need for Accountability for Torture in Rwanda,” documents torture and ill-treatment by prison officials …
Russian Forces Tortured Detainees in Izium, Ukraine
(Kyiv, October 19, 2022) – Russian forces and others operating under their command routinely tortured detainees during their six-month occupation of Izium, a city in the Kharkiv region of ...